The Pirate's Dreams

The flame engulfed the sea, and the five pirate ships were instantly decimated. The battle ended so quickly.

Giotto looked at the flame that was still blazing on his fist. He could not help but sigh in his heart. No wonder it was called the strongest of the three types of Devil Fruit. Its wide range was enough to raise the value of this thing to an extremely high level.

From this moment on, the so-called Fierce Ghost Pirates no longer existed. Barely anyone survived Giotto's attack just now. Since the Fierce Ghost Hughman was the main target, he was probably dead.

"It seems like it'd be convenient if I have a boat that was powered by flame, like Ace. Well, I'll ask Giannini to make one when. It will be great if Shoichi Irie is also there at that time. Giannini working on it alone did make him a little uneasy."

Giotto murmured to himself about things others would not understand and went straight back to the cabin. He devided to disembark the next time Buggy docked.

From the moment Giotto returned to the room, Buggy and his men still had a surprised look on their faces. They had never seen Logia's devastating power firsthand. In addition, when Flame-Flame Fruit demonstrated its power earlier, the flame was so intense, so it couldn't be helped if they were still shocked.

After concluding his journey on East Blue, Giotto hired a merchant ship just like before and headed to his next destination, Jaya.

Although he did not intend to use the Knock-up-Stream, Jaya was naturally the best choice if he wanted to find Skypiea's location. When the time came, he could just use Dying Will Flame to fly up, saving time and trouble. If it were any other person, they would probably be too afraid to do so. After all, they had to reach ten thousand meters altitude to get to Skypiea.

The sea cloud in the White-White Sea was very similar to sea water in the Blue Sea. Naturally, it would render Devil Fruit user powerless. However, this effect did not affect Giotto at all.

As long as he was fast enough, it would be no problem!

"A lot of big things have happened recently!"

Standing on the deck of the merchant ship, Giotto took the newspaper dropped by the news bird and carefully read the recent events, "as expected of someone who used to be as famous as captain, that guy Shiki really did it this time."

Shiki was a famous pirate that rivaled Roger and Whitebeard. He even went as far as cutting off his own legs to escape from Impel Down. He was the only one who managed to escape from Impel Down for so long.

If Shiki knew that he would be defeated by a kid like Luffy in the future, he might've used his sword to commit suicide to protect his reputation.

"But this guy, Red Count is interesting. He was thrown in when Shiki escaped from the Impel Down. Is this an exchange or something? As for his bounty..."

Giotto took out the newly issued reward from the newspaper. His bounty was 79 million Belly right off the bat. It meant that this person was very dangerous. However, at this time, he did not take himself into consideration at all. Because he had attacked the G5 branch with Bullet before, his first bounty was as high as 500 million.

This was quite a feat to achieve in this sea!

"Destroying six Marine warships at the age of eight and survived Buster Call. Hehe... Hadn't I know everything, I would also think that this little girl was really the Devil Child."

Giotto shook his head as he murmured to himself. Then he threw the newspaper and the wanted poster into the sea. These things had nothing to do with him.

"Sir, we have arrived at Jaya. Are you getting off here?"

Hearing the voice of the crew, Giotto nodded and then jumped off.

Now there were not as many annoying voices on this island. Most of them were ordinary residents and pirates, and some people who believed in the City of Gold and an island in the sky.

After confirming the location, he launched into the sky like a rocket with Dying Will Flame in his hand.

After passing through the sea clouds, he reached the White Sea.

Even he, who had seen the original anime, could not help but be surprised by the magical and beautiful scenery in front of him. Seeing these clouds made him feel like this was a fairyland.

However, the one living on this side was not an immortal god. They were just ordinary people with small wings. Because they've never had any contact with people from Blue Sea, they did not know the existence of Haki and Devil Fruit. In their eyes, those were special abilities bestowed by God, hence the existence of gods and priests.

The powerful combatant here claimed that they could use 'Mantra', which in fact was the Color of Observation Haki.

"I'll head to Birka to find Rumble-Rumble Fruit first, then Shandora or City of Gold, to look for gold. It'd be best if I could bring Enel and enlist him to our Family. I can't give Rumble-Rumble Fruit to him, but he seems quite talented. As long as someone teaches him well, he will be able to stand his own ground in the future."

After making this decision, Giotto made his way to Birka.

Enel was indeed quite skilled, but he was too focused on developing Rumble-Rumble Fruit's ability and neglected other training. Of course, since he believed that he was a god, something like training was out of the question.

However, at this time, Enel was only around ten years old. He was bullied because he did not have wings and his earlobes were too long. He was a monster in the eyes of Skypiea's natives.

As it has always been, people would consider you a monster when you're different from the majority of people, whether you were a real monster or not.

The disgust that Skypiea had for Enel was no less than the disgust that ordinary people had for Fishmen!

In the corner of Birka, a child glared at the surrounding world with a resentful expression. At the same time, he cursed in a low voice, "All of you, just you wait. One day, I will become a god! I will become the god that will trample you!".